Lagos State Police Command, has paraded six suspected rapists.
While five of the suspects; Gabriel Obinna, Hector Uguchukwu, Chinedu Ezeanya, Akubueze Nnadozie, and Godwin Balogun were accused of raping a 24-year-old lady at a hotel in Agege, the sixth suspect, Emmanuel Mbati, allegedly defiled his neighbour’s 18-month-old baby at Owutu, Ikorodu.
Police Commissioner, Fatai Owoseni, said the five suspects lured their victim through the social media by pretending to be real estate agents.
Owoseni said the suspects lured the lady, who was looking for accommodation, to Happy Hour Hotel, Agege, where they committed the crime.
He said about three other ladies had been lured in similar manner by the suspects.
The suspects denied the allegations, insisting that their escapade with the unnamed lady was consensual.
Owoseni also said at least four suspected armed robbers have been killed in the last three weeks by police in Lagos.
In addition, thirty-seven armed robbery suspects, nine alleged kidnappers and thirty-nine cultists were arrested during the period.
Owoseni, said twenty different weapons with thirty rounds of live ammunition and thirty-eight vehicles were recovered by the police.
He said the cultists’ arrest followed intelligence report on their plan to wreak havoc across the state during “their Eight-Eight (August 8) celebration.
